I read about a third of it and had to give it back to the school library. The thing that really annoyed me is that it ruins the end completely in the INTRODUCTION to the book!!!!! It tells you what was intended and the common misinterpretations.

Pythonist wrote:...The thing that really annoyed me is that it ruins the end completely in the INTRODUCTION to the book!!!!! It tells you what was intended and the common misinterpretations.

I got so angry

I've not read that yet, but I hear it's really good. If I do read it, i'll be sure not to read the introduction until after reading the rest of the book. Thanks for the headsup on that one .

As for cult classics, I would also like to add a few more. Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) absolutely has to be in a list of cult classics, as does Being There. Both films contain sterling performances from all involved, especially Peter Sellers. The guy was a legend. Another film he excelled in was Lolita (1962) with James Mason, who delivered a solid performance as poet and pervert Humbert Humbert. The remake with Jeremy Irons was also superb.

I've been waiting for someone to mention Forbidden Planet , Fantastic Planet , Phantom Of The Paradise and A Christmas Story ( the last one , along with Up are the flicks I put on when I need a cure fo deep depression ,works all the time . )

@#!%$! THIS DAMN COMPUTE_'S BLOODY LETTE_ _ IS BUNGED UP !Makin me c_azy it is .

Forbidden Planet definitely. Also Citizen Kane, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sound of Music, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Quatermass Experiment, DOA, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. All originals where remakes exist.

Roland Deschain - Half prophet, half gunslinger, all Pastafarian!

"Since Alexander Pearce escaped, over 250 people have disappeared in the Tasmanian wilderness. No remains have ever been found." - Dying Breed

Roland Deschain wrote:Also Citizen Kane, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sound of Music

Those aren't cult classics, they're just classics.

"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical and cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." Bill Hicks."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." Abraham Lincoln"Are you OK?" daftbeaker (<-- very good question, people should ask it more often.)

Phantom of the Paradise... One of my favorite movies, I sing the songs (written by Paul Williams) all the time. Now I want to sing one of them, but I'm in a bloody library! Thanks a lot for reminding me, ChowMein!

I hated Donnie Darko. It makes no sense. People are always going on about how "deep" and "meaningful" it is. It means nothing and it's not deep. It's a poorly written, poorly executed mood piece, and it only makes sense if you read the supplemental materials, and not in an "Oh, I see it now, I missed it the first time" way, but rather, in a "this book says things that are not in the slightest indicated in the movie" way. The story doesn't stand on its own at all, in other words. It's most certainly not Scottish.